King City landmark

Photo by Barry Wallace

SHIFT By Richard Serra

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King's early October colours

16th Sideroad & 8th Concession

6th Concession at Strange

15th Sideroad at 8th Concession

Kelley Lake ~ 7th Concession & 16th Sideroad

Photos by Barry Wallace

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Barry Wallace

Mandevilla welcomes October

Photo by Barry Wallace

The Mandevilla "Red Velvet" (a.k.a. Dipladenia "Red Velvet") climbing up our backyard pergola is blooming as nicely in October as is has all summer.   The "White Velvet" version is thriving also.   I was told Mandevilla was an annual in this climate but have since seen instructions for over-wintering it indoors.   What to do?   What to do?

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Barry Wallace

Cairns descendants visit Cold Creek

Photo by Barry Wallace

Three generations of Cairns descendants recently visited one of the new history plaques at Cold Creek Conservation Area, on the 11th Concession of King Township.   Pictured behind the plaque honouring the Cairns family (original settlers on the site) are William Bailey (middle left) and Spencer Bailey (middle right) of Aurora.   The two brothers are great, great, great, great nephews of Adam Cairns, who brought his wife and children, and younger brother, William Cairns, from Kintyre, Scotland, to Canada in 1831.   Adam took up farming in York County and in 1842 he purchased his 100-acre farm at the Cold Creek site.   Adam's younger brother, William, was the great, great, great grandfather of the two Bailey boys.   Also in the photo, on the left, is Allison (Wallace) Bailey, mother of William and Spencer, and on the right is Linda (Cairns) Wallace of King City, maternal grandmother of the Bailey boys.   The two Bailey boys are also this writer's grandsons.   Allison is my oldest daughter and Linda is my wife.   Cairns family members occupied the Cold Creek farm site for 112 years.

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Barry Wallace

Stone walls

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out.

                                                  Robert Frost (Mending Wall) 1914

7th Concession and 15th Sideroad

6th Concession ~ Gregloch Lake 

Redcrest Cardinal Golf Course ~ Keele Street north of Highway 9  

Oak Ridges Trail ~ between 6th and 7th Concessions

Photos by Barry Wallace

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Camera on Lloydtown & Schomberg

Centre Street ~ Lloydtown

 10th Concession ~ near Lloydtown

Main Street ~ Schomberg

Photos by Barry Wallace

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Barry Wallace

So King...so desirable!

Photo by Barry Wallace

...except it's not in King!

This billboard for the King's Gate subdivision, which describes itself as being "so King", is located on the east side of Bathurst Street, just north of the Temperanceville.   But the sign and the new homes are located in Richmond Hill - not King Township.   Details...details...pesky details.

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